Improvement in hog-ringing pinchers



" l Nrrnn 'raras IMPROVEMENT IN HQG-RINGlNG PINCHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. lll, dated FebruarylO, 1874; application filed July 15, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

13e it known that I, Josnrn BURGER, o I1`airbury, in the county of Livingston and in the State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement in Hog-Ringin g Iinchers; and do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which like letters of reference refer to like parts, and in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the inserter or pinchers, carrying the nosering ready for insertion; Fig. 2, side elevation of nose piece or ring; Fig. 3, perspective view of latter; Fig. 4L, view of under sideof upper half of piuchers or inserter, showing recess for retention of ring; Fig. 5, view of under sidcof lowerhalf of pinchers 5 Fig. 6, side elevation of pinch ers, showin g hogs snout, andthe pinchers closed after the insertion of the ring 5 Fig. 7, vertical section, longitudinally, of the upper jaw of the piuchers, to show recess for retention of plate of nose-ring; Fig. 8, view of end of upper jaw of pinchcrs, showing recess.

This invention relates to a pair of pinchers having one of the jaws provided with curved lateral arms and a recess to receive a barbed hook or ring for insertion in the hogs nose, and the other with a bifureated end, as will be hereinafter more full y explained, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, AV represents the upper jaw of the pinehers, terminating in front in two lateral curved arms, av a., of suliicient length torpartly inclose the front of the auimals snout during the insertion of the barb or nosering C. Behind these, and beneath the jaw, is a recess, d, about three-fourths of a-n inch in length from front to rear, one-third of au iueh wide, and about one-sixteenth of an inch deep, having its sides constructed with iianges or proiections, to retain the flat terminal plate c of the barbed hook or nose-rin g (l. The recess may be placed above the jaw with equal utility. B represents the lower jaw of the pinchers, and is in form fiat, of same size' as the upper jaw, to which it is parallel when the pinehers are closed, leaving a distance between each of about threefourths of an inch. This jaw ends in a bifurcation, l) I), all in the same plane. lSaid bifurcations terminate opposite and below the base of the upper arms a a, and inclose a recess measuring half an inch in diameter each way.

C represents the hook or barbed nose-piece, which resembles a short arrow, having at one end a flat plate, c, before described, which, when tie hook is stamped from the sheet ot' metal,1s in the same plane with the barb j'. The hook C is bent close to the -said plate, at an acute an gle,resembling, when thus shaped, a cultivator-shovel, stem, and beam united. A convenient size for the hook or nose-piece C is about one and one-half .inch in length, (cut out of one-sixteenth-inch iron sheets, or plates of a less thickness the barb l'being about onefourth of an 4inch in length, the plate c onehalf an inch long by one-third of au inch in width.

`The operation of this nose-ring and pinehers is'as follows: The plate c of the former is inserted, with the barb f downward, in the recess d ofthe upper jaw A of the pinehers or inserter, and the barb or ring is ready for insertion in the hogs nose. The latter is properly secured or held, the jaws of the pinchers are widened to their fullest extent, and the curved arms (c a. are pressed against the front of the animals nose, so that any lateral motion of the latter will not displace the pinehers. The arms b b of the lower jaw B are placed at the same time against' the flat part of the nostril, and the pincher-jaws are brought together. The barb f, by this act-ion, is driven neatly through the nose, at the usual place, and is prevented from being pulled out by the barbed points, j', below, and the fiat bent plate or stem c above, which now lies on the animals snout.

That I ela-im as my invention is- A pair of pinchers having one of the jaws provided with curved lateral arms a and recess d, to receive a barbed hook or ring, e j', and the other with a bifurcated end, b b, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that Inclairn the foregoing hogrin g and inserter I have hereunto set my hand this 7th day of July, A. D. 1873.

JOSEPH BURGER.

fitnesscs IV. WV. WELLS. JOHANNES BnoNsoX. 

